Where are Miley Cyrus' dad and mum - folks whose lone act of parental concern was to give their girl permission to ink her body with tattoos?

I've had it up to here with this generation of junior celebs who use their fame as an excuse for behavior one wouldn't accept from a street hustler.

All over the world, children, some not long out of diapers, are in for trouble. Years ago, kids wanted to grow up to be like their teacher, big brothers or sisters.

Now, it's all Miley and Justin, all the time.

In just a few months, Bieber, the 19-year-old diminutive Canadian pop star, has devolved into a human train wreck. He's Amanda Bynes, without the wig.

The long series of appalling behavior hit a climax when Biebs was seen in a videotape obtained by TMZ.com, laughing earlier this year with his buddies while relieving himself into a mop bucket in the back of an unidentified New York restaurant. The entitled pipsqueak was apparently too self-involved to consider that a minimum-wage-earning fan might be required to clean up after him. Bieber was then seen spraying cleaning liquid on a photo of Bill Clinton, unloading an F-bomb at the former president. He later apologized to Clinton. Not to the working people of New York.

The disgusting behavior should have sent Bieber into a new career in fast-food management. It probably won't.

Justin Bieber with the monkey that got him into so much strife. Picture: Instagram

Though technically an adult, Bieber behaves like a toddler in a tantrum. He should not walk free without adult supervision. But who will step in?

The bad behavior is amping up. Bieber drove over 100 mph in a 65-mph zone on a California highway last year. The paparazzi made me do it, he complained.

Biebs had to be restrained by his own bodyguard this year in London as he cursed at and lunged at a photographer. Drugs were found on his tour bus (but were not linked to Justin). His pet capuchin monkey, Mally, was seized by customs agents in Germany. In Poland, he walked, bizarrely shirtless, through airport security. He also passed out onstage in London.

In April, while visiting the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, where Anne hid before dying in a Nazi death camp at age 15, he enraged Jews and people of good conscience.

"Truly inspiring to be able to come here," he wrote in the museum's guest book. "Anne was a great girl. Hopefully she would have been a belieber" (a Bieber fan).

Who's minding the miscreant? The mother who raised him sounds more like a pal than a parent.

"You know, you've got to love them and encourage them, and he knows what I think. He knows the things that I disagree with,'' mum Pattie Mallette indulgently told Fox & Friends last week. "But he also knows the many things that I'm really proud of him for. He does a lot of great things that don't show up in the headlines.''

Miley Cyrus loves to twerk. Picture: Twitter

Miley has fallen low since her seemingly wholesome days starring in the Disney Channel's Hannah Montana. She was voted Worst Female Role Model in a recent online poll of parents by CouponCodes4u.com, beaten out on the male side only by Rihanna-basher Chris Brown.

Today Miley, 20, parades onstage in her underwear. She referred to herself as a "stoner" in a video in which she appeared with a bong. Miley, who may or may not still be engaged to actor Liam Hemsworth, was taped eating a cake shaped like male private parts.

But don't expect Miley's parents to intervene. Country-singer dad Billy Ray Cyrus defended Miley against parents who complained when she gyrated like a stripper on a pole during the Teen Choice Awards in 2009 - when Miley was 16. That year, she was also videotaped bumping and grinding against a 44-year-old man.

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Comments on this story

Katie of Adelaide Posted at 5:11 PM July 17, 2013

Yes, Justin is a moron who treats people badly. But I don't see anything you've listed Miley doing as being too bad. A little trashy, but she isn't hurting anyone. Child stars growing up badly isn't exactly a new phenomenon - Michael Jackson, Amanda Bynes, Macauley Culkin, the kid from Terminator 2 whose name I don't even remember. And there are others who manage to keep their heads somehow, like Neil Patrick Harris, Alyssa Milano, Dakota Fanning. Even Taylor Lautner was 15-16 when he started doing the Twilight movies and some other stuff before that, and I've never heard of him being arrogant or self destructive. (Yes, I knew that. Shut up.) So it's not all child stars, but it's not at all surprising. They're being thrust into a world that for the most part they're too young for, working hard in an adult world with adults. Far too much attention both good and bad, way too much money, way too much power. That's just never a good thing.

Jane of reality Posted at 4:19 PM July 17, 2013

I have 2 teenage boys Neither of which aspire to be like any of todays young stars. "Why" because in our house we discuss celebrities and talk about how pointless they are .My sons think Jb is a douche,Miley is a scrag,the kardashians are brainless idiots and Kanye West...laughs a gay fish {south park reference} When the glee guy passed away .I sat them down to discuss Drug addiction and the cost it has.Smart teenagers who have discussions with their parents about pop culture realise that when they behave like idiots they are not someone to look up to.My eldest son who is 16 looks up to Dr Karl {the jjj science guy} The youngest who is 13 looks up to animal handlers on tv .It's pretty easy to show kids who they can aspire to want to be but it requires parenting and open discussion.

The good guys didn't win WW2 of Australia Posted at 3:35 PM July 17, 2013

they are adults of the legal age so why would their parents be there, did your parents follow you every where you went after you turned 18 ????? Media cop out.and media hype..how many people lives have the media wrecked ???????

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